The landing pad for a SOA reference implmentation is
an electronic registry that becomes a point of action
in the SOA. The email folder that collects e-mails on
ontology tools is not a point of action in the SOA
because it is not acting in an automated fashion with
the SOA. A UDDI registry or ebXML registry could be
an electronic registry that is a point of action in
the SOA.
Danny
--- Ken Laskey <> wrote:
> Danny,
>
> This really depends on what we mean by an electronic
> registry. For
> example, I have an email folder where I collect
> emails on ontology
> tools. I can browse or do string searches on the
> contained
> emails. To what extent am I making use of an
> electronic
> registry? The email client does deal with
> electronic media but is
> not marketed as a registry any more than is a pack
> of Post-It
> notes. On the other hand, I have created Excel
> spreadsheets with
> similar types of information and know people who
> would do it in an
> Access database. At what point do these become
> electronic registries?
>
> When does it matter?
>
> Ken
>
> At 09:36 AM 8/17/2006, Danny Thornton wrote:
> >Ken,
> >
> >The Publish-Find-Bind describes three levels of
> >registries: a personal regsitry, a group registry,
> and
> >a global registry. In one of our SOA telecons we
> >agreed that a registry is more specific than a
> >mediator. The use of mediator/registry and SOA
> >discovery has an implication of an electronic
> >mechanism to perform discovery. Could a personal
> >registry include the use of an electronic registry?
> >The reason I ask is because some form of electronic
> >mediation is the landing pad for a reference
> >implementation.
> >
> >Danny
> >
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